Dissertations certified
I’ve been involved with the following dissertations, either as
adviser (director), as a reviewer (who approves the dissertation before
the final examination), or as another member of the examination
committee. Except as
indicated the authors were enrolled in the Department of English.
The full text of any dissertation completed in 1997 or later,
except for the most recent, is available through the ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses database, either for a fee or, in the case of the Big 10
universities and the University of Chicago, gratis. For details see
Digital Dissertations.
- Krista Kennedy. “Textual Curators and Writing Machines: Authorial Agency in Encyclopedias, Print to Digital.” 2009.
(Reviewer.)
- Jean Jacobson. “How
Should Poems Look? The Printer’s Measure and Poet’s Line.” 2008.
(Adviser.)
- Joan Menefee. “Decoding
Distraction: Attention in American Culture. 1871–1916.” 2004.
(Committee chair.)
- Steven Hardy. “Expatriate
Writing. Expatriate Readers:
English
Language
Fiction Published Along the China Coast in the Late Nineteenth and
Early
Twentieth Centuries.” 2003. (Adviser.)
- Betty Bright. “No Longer
Innocent: The Book Arts in
America.
1960
to 1980.” 2000. Department of Art History. (Reviewer.) Published as No
Longer Innocent: Book Art in America. 1960–1980 (New York, NY:
Granary Books, 2005).
- Sarah Wadsworth. “Reading
the Marketplace: The Culture of
the
Book
in Nineteenth-Century America.” 2000. (Reviewer.) Published as In the
Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century
America (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).
- Myungjin Kim. “Dialogism
in Dickens’ First-Person
Narratives: A
Bakhtinian Study.” 1999. (Committee chair).
- Yvonne Lindsay. “Yeats
and Pater: An Aesthetic Journey.”
1999. (Adviser.)
- Katherine Mapes.
“Intimate Language: The Correspondence
between
Byron’s Letters and Journals and Don Juan.” 1999. (Committee
chair.)
- Sang-chul Lee. “Republic
of Korea President Kim
Young-sam’s
Rhetoric
in the 1992 Campaign and the First Year in Office: A Case Study of
Presidential
Rhetoric in Democratization.” 1998. Department of
Speech-Communication. (Committee member)
- Soo-jae Lee. “Relevance
and Processing in Interpreting
Null
Object
Sentences in Korean: The Interaction of Context and Processing Effort.”
1998. Institute of Linguistics and Asian and Slavic Languages and
Literatures. (Reviewer)
- Thomas Edward Fitch.
“Anima-Animus for String Quartet.”
1997. School of Music. (Reviewer.)
- Linda Fletcher. “The
Clergyman’s Daughter.” 1997. (Reviewer and
committee
chair.)
- J Paul Johnson.
“Literacy. Technology. and Progress: The
Social
Construction of World Wide Web Hypertexts in First-Year Composition.”
1997. (Reviewer.)
- Robert E. Kibler. “The
Road to Jade Dragon Mountain: Ezra Pound’s Aesthetic Movement from West
to East and His Creation of a Paradiso Terrestre.” 1997.
(Reviewer.)
- Christopher Miles Michaelson.
“Philosophy Out of the Cave:
An
Expedition
in Philosophical Style.” 1997. Department of Philosophy. (Reviewer.)
- William Anthony Rozaitis. “Desire Reduced to a Petal’s
Span:
William
Carlos Williams, Charles Demuth, and Floral Representation in Late
Nineteenth-
and Early Twentieth-Century America.” 1997. (Committee member.)
- Helen J. Aling.
“Dickens’s Unitarian Theology.” 1996. (Committee
member.)
- Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis.
“History at Home: Reassessing the
Role
of
Women in theVictorian Historical Novel.” 1996. (Reviewer.)
- Julie L’Enfant. “Truth in
Art: William Michael Rossetti
and
Nineteenth-Century
Realist Criticism.” 1996. (Reviewer and committee chair.) Published as William
Rossetti’s Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art
(Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998).
- David S. Rothstein.
“Chivalry and Nostalgia: British
Literature
and
the Formation of a Tory-Medievalist National Identity. 1820–1845.”
1996. (Committee
chair.)
- Deborah F. Rossen-Knill.
“Toward a Pragmatics of Dialogue
in
Fiction.”
1995. (Committee member.)
- Larry Shillock.
“Disciplining Vision: Fin de
siècle
Literature, Optics, and Psychoanalysis. 1885–1900.” 1995. (Committee
member.)
- Richard Scott Carr. “Who
Are We? The Australian Quest for
Literary
Identity.” 1994. (Committee member.)
- Carlos Barney Dews. “Illumination
and Night Glare:
The
Unfinished
Autobiography of Carson McCullers.” 1994. (Reviewer.) Published as Illumination
and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers. Wisconsin
Studies in Autobiography (Madison: University of Wicsonsin Press, 1999).
- Richard Michael Henry.
“Pretending and Meaning”
1994. (Adviser.)
Published
as Pretending
and Meaning: Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Fictional Discourse.
Contributions in Philosophy 57 (Westport. CT: Greenwood. 1996).
- Susan Ann Hyman. “Green
Fields: The Spirit of Place in
Novels
and
Memoirs of the Victorian Countryside.” 1994. (Committee member.)
- James Maertens.
“Promethean Desires: The Technician as
Hero and
Myths of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Literature.” 1993.
(Reviewer.)
- Daniel Francis Cooper
Alcarón. “The Aztec
Palimpsest:
Discursive
Appropriations of Mexican Culture.” 1992. (Committee member.)
- Ersu Ding. “Meaning and
Power: A Study in the Marxist
Theory of
Language.” 1992. (Committee member.)
- LuMing Robert Mao.
“Pragmatic Universals and Their
Implications.” 1991. (Adviser.) Published in part as “Beyond Politeness Theory: ‘Face’ Revisited and Renewed,” Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1994):
451–86.
- Katherine Allison Retan.
“The Representation and
Resolution of
Class
and Gender Conflict in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, Charles
Dickens,
and Elizabeth Gaskell.” 1991. (Reviewer.)
- John Dunning Wenstrom.
“Modernist Irony: Frost, Eliot.” 1991. (Adviser.)
- Donna Rae White. “The
Mabinogi in Children’s Literature:
Welsh
Legends
in English-Language Children’s Books.” 1991. (Committee chair.)
Published as A
Century of Welsh Myth in Children’s Literature.
Contributions
to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy 77 (Westport, CT:
Greenwood,
1998).
- Ruth Wood. “A Challenge
to Highbrow Hegemony: A Study
Based on
Highbrow,
Middlebrow, and Lowbrow American Novels of the Nineteen-Fifties.”
1991. (Committee
member.)
- Colleen Denney.
“Exhibition Reforms and Systems: The
Grosvenor
Gallery.
1877–1890.” 1990. Department of Art History. (Reviewer.) Published in
part in The
Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England, ed.
Susan
P. Casteras and Colleen Denney (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British
Art, 1996).
- Kyungwon Shin. “The
English Origins of Wordsworth’s
Organicism.”
1990. (Committee chair.)
- Miguel Tamen. “Manners of Interpretation.” 1990. Department
of Comparative Literature. (Reviewer.) Published as Manners
of Interpretation: The Ends of Argument in Literary Studies
(Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1993).
- Kari Joy Winter.
“Subjects of Slavery. Agents of History:
Women
and Power in Female Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790–1900.”
1990. (Adviser.)
Published as Subjects
of Slavery. Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and
Slave
Narratives, 1790–1865 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
- Elizabeth Frick Baldwin.
“Linguistics and Ideology in the
‘English-Only’
Movement.” 1998. (Committee chair.)
- Laura Ann Brady.
“Collaborative Literary Writing: Issues
of
Authorship
and Authority.” 1988. (Committee chair.)
- James Michael Kaufman.
“The Rhetoric of Medical Writing:
Case
Studies
of Physicians Writing for Journal Publication” 1988. (Committee chair.)
- Timothy Robert Sweet.
“Traces of War: Poetry. Photography.
and
the
Question of Representation in the American Civil War.” 1988. (Adviser.)
Published
as Traces
of War: Poetry. Photography. and the Crisis of the Union.
Parallax:
Re-Visions of Culture and Society (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins
University
Press, 1990).
- Cynthia Clara Carlton-Ford.
1987. “Conversation, Gender, and
Power:
Dialogue
in the Nineteenth-Century Novel.” (Reviewer.)
- Julia Marie Gergits.“Women
Can Paint Sometimes: Women
Painters
in Nineteenth-Century Novels.” 1987. (Committee member.)
- Paula Reed Nancarrow.
“Remythologizing the Bible: Fantasy
and the
Revelatory Hermeneutic of George MacDonald.” 1987. (Co-adviser.)
- Jerome D. DeNuccio. “A
Testimony of My Innocency: The
Literary
Dimensions
of Robert Keaynes’s Last Will and Testament, 1653.” 1986. (Committee
member.)
- Carl George Herndl.
“Maid/Made in the Image: Solitary
Women in
Wordsworth’s
Early Poetry.” 1986. (Committee member.)
- Margaret Ann Crouch.
“Concepts and Reality: An Examination
of
Realism.” 1985. Department of Philosophy.
(Reviewer.)
- Sara Joan Eaton. “The
Rhetoric of Sexual Revenge in
Jacobean
Drama.”
1985. (Committee member.)
- Michael J. Opitz. “Poetry
as Appropriate Epistemology:
Gregory
Bateson
and W. B. Yeats.” 1985. (Committee member.)
- Gordon Philip Thomas.
“Reading, Writing, and Mutual
Knowledge.” 1985.
(Reviewer.)
- James Dana Alexander.
“Aphesis in English.” 1984. (Committee
member.)
- Matthew Cannon Brennan.
“Wordsworth. Turner. and Romantic
Landscape
Traditions: A Study in the Picturesque and the Sublime.” 1984.
(Committee
member.) Published as Wordsworth. Turner. and Romantic Landscape: A
Study
of the Traditions of the Picturesque and the Sublime. Studies in
English
and American Literature. Linguistics. and Culture 5 (Columbia. SC:
Camden
House, 1987).
- Robert Edward Brooke.
“Writing and Commitment: Some
Psychosocial
Functions of College Writing.” 1984. (Committee member.)
- Erle Patrick Moore. “The
Broken Pentameter: William Carlos
Williams
and the Conventions of Poetry.”1984. (Committee member.)
- William Michael Kleine.
“Syntactic Choice and a Theory of
Discourse:
Rethinking Sentence-Combining.” 1983. (Committee member.)
- Janis Lull. “Language
Behavior and Renaissance Poetry:
Studies
in
Shakespeare. Herbert. and Donne." 1983. (Reviwer.)
- Sandra Dianne Sandell.
“‘A
Very Poetic Circumstance’: Incest
and
the
English Literary Imagination.” 1981. (Adviser.)
- John Edgar Tidwell.
“Cultural Collaboration and
Iconoclasm: The
Literary and Cultural Criticism of Alain Locke and Sterling Brown.”
1981.
(Committee
member.)
- Marilyn Marie Cooper.
“Implicatures in Dramatic
Conversations.” 1980.
(Reviewer.) Published in part as “Implicature, Convention, and The Taming of the Shrew,” Poetics
10 (1981): 1–14.
- Karen Louise Olson Murray.
“Speakers in Lyric Poetry.” 1980.
(Committee
chair.)
- Stephen James Adams. “‘To
Set All Well Afloat’: Romantic
Structures
and Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.”
1970.
(Committee
member.)
- Joel Francis Jackson.
“Speech-Act Theory and
Reader-Response
Criticism.” 1977.
(Committee member.)
- James Harry McCormick.
“The Distinctive Literary Property:
A
Study
of a Theme in Twentieth-Century Criticism.” 1977. (Committee member.)
- Barton Winfield Galle. Jr.
“Self-Sacrifice versus
Self-Help in
Selected
Victorian Novels.” 1976. (Committee member.)
- Russell Joseph Meyer.
“Tudor Laughter: A Preliminary Study
for
a Theory of Humor.” 1976. (Committee member.)
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